Comedy Projects

The Steak Network

The Steak Network is “Instagram for steaks” using the Proof of Steak protocol which can be used to incentivize and curate a decentralized registry. I raised $15k in donations to second-layer Ethereum projects.

We Know Art

Settl

It's like Tinder, but perfectly suited to your millennial lifestyle. settl matches you with everyone in the app. Try to swipe left and it won't let you. If you don't immediately start chatting with them, it'll turn on a bot to chat for you. It'll then find an available time in your calendar and schedule your date because it knows you're too sad to not go.

/partyparrot

Professional Experience

Skillshare

I led the SEO-focused growth engineering efforts, helped migrate to and establish the new Kubernetes-backed infrastructure (0-downtime deploys, centralized logging, etc), built a teacher-facing analytics dashboard, and helped minimize tech debt and establish best practices.

HackNY Fellow

Grooveshark

At Grooveshark, I managed and developed a user-friendly analytics dashboard. I also learned a lot about team programming and project management by taking over an existing project and working with experienced developers.

Sampled Projects

Merry Merkle

We raised $250,000 in donations to Covenant House, a Toronto-based charity for homeless youth. I served as project manager and lead engineer for architecting an Ethereum-backed donation leaderboard, complete with real light-up (Merkle) Xmas Tree. We went from idea to reality within 5 days.

Fivestar

Raffie

Raffie was a Venmo-based bot that conducted raffles. Participants could send @raffle a dollar and be entered into the raffle. When 20 people entered, one person would get $20! It was shut down in 3 hours, thanks Venmo.

Grooveshark Analytics Dashboard

At Grooveshark, I managed and developed a user-friendly analytics dashboard. I also learned a lot about team programming and project management by taking over an existing project and working with experienced developers.

gslash

Chrome extension that adds "cmd-/" as a shortcut to focus the main search box on arbitrary pages.

Coinmap.org Contribution

Askey

Askey is an iOS keyboard that turns doodles into ASCII-text drawings. It works most of the time. Give it a download if you want your friends to think you spent a lot of time drawing out some incredible ASCII art for them.

skiff

MCBouncyButton

Jump - Leap Motion on iOS

Jump lets iOS developers integrate Leap Motion gestures into their app with a few lines of code. Users can use their Leap to control a supporting app or even their entire OS UI. Won second place at GeauxHack 2014!

Express on Rails, AKA #2TRAINZ

At hackNY Fall 2014, I attached an Intel Edison to a model train that navigated between rooms, collecting environmental sensor data. We then piped the data to a server to be displayed in real time on a web app. To be clear, the server is in Express and the train is on rails.

MessageSwiper

Home Automation Proof of Concept

I implemented a naive version of Jarvis from Iron Man. You communicate with him through computers, smartwatches, and phones over HTTP and the AI will intelligently route commands to wireless nodes, instructing them to flip switches or turn on motors. It has a party mode, obviously.

Autonomous, Maze-Solving Arduino Bot

Fully autonomous Arduino path-finding robot using Depth-First-Search. The build includes a dual H-bridge motor controller setup, along with a custom, recursive path-finding algorithm. The bot is able to solve any maze of infinite size, given infinite time, memory, and energy. So maybe not every maze. But a good many of them, for sure.

Billboard Top Hat

This is a top hat equipped with 150 individual RGB LEDs which react to music in the environment. Uses a Fourier Transform algorithm to identify bass frequencies and flashes accordingly. Uses custom display driver to display animations.